Having done his best to dismantle our superior firepower, denigrate our service men and abandon Iraq and Syria, he now deploys troops, in what can only be described as incoherent and absurd strategy.

“First on CNN: ISIS suspected of mustard attack against US and Iraqi troops,” By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent

Washington (CNN)ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials.
The shell was categorized by officials as either a rocket or artillery shell. After it landed on the base, just south of Mosul, US troops tested it and received an initial reading for a chemical agent they believe is mustard.

No US troops were hurt or have displayed symptoms of exposure to mustard agent.
One official said the agent had “low purity” and was “poorly weaponized.” A second official called it “ineffective.”
A US defense official said troops had gone out to look at the ordnance after it landed. Based on seeing what they thought was a suspect substance, two field tests were conducted.
The first test was positive and the second was negative, the official said. The substance is now being sent to a lab for further examination.
Iraqi forces push towards Mosul as refugees wait for aid
Photos: Iraqi forces push towards Mosul as refugees wait for aid
Iraqi forces move towards the al-Qayyara front line — it’s been more than two years since the army was in the area.
On the banks of the Tigris river, Iraqi forces extended a pontoon bridge to gain access into the al-Qayyara region.
The bridge has been a vital access point for forces moving forward, but also allowed people to flee from ISIS across the river.
Smoke rises from al-Qayyara in the late afternoon light, as ISIS burns crude oil to block visibility from above.
Refugee camps outside al-Qayyara, Iraq, where people live in hostile conditions, with scorching desert winds and constant heat.
Iraqi mother Piswa Treish holds a picture of her son (right) who was killed by ISIS.
Iraqi forces move towards the al-Qayyara front line — it’s been more than two years since the army was in the area.
On the banks of the Tigris river, Iraqi forces extended a pontoon bridge to gain access into the al-Qayyara region.
The bridge has been a vital access point for forces moving forward, but also allowed people to flee from ISIS across the river.
Smoke rises from al-Qayyara in the late afternoon light, as ISIS burns crude oil to block visibility from above.
Refugee camps outside al-Qayyara, Iraq, where people live in hostile conditions, with scorching desert winds and constant heat.
Iraqi mother Piswa Treish holds a picture of her son (right) who was killed by ISIS.

US troops involved in the incident went through decontamination showers as a precaution. No troops have shown any symptoms of exposure, such as skin blistering. CNN has reported on previous instances where ISIS has fired rounds with mustard agents in Iraq and Syria.
The officials said they “had expected” that ISIS might try use chemical weapons as US and Iraqi forces push towards Mosul in an effort to take the city back from ISIS. Several hundred US troops are using the base as a staging area for supporting Iraqi forces.
All of this has led the Pentagon to assess on a preliminary basis that it was ISIS that fired at the base, since the terror group has been making mustard agent for some time.
In the course of its air campaign against ISIS, US airstrikes have hit several locations the US believes are production sites for mustard agent.
US officials emphasized that mustard agent is relatively easy to produce, and they continue to hit suspected manufacturing sites when they find them. US troops are routinely outfitted with protective gear in the event of a chemical weapons attack.

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.

Sort of a variation on go hard or go home, like go home or go stiff, till the rigor mortis wears off anyway.

Kirsty

Go home or hard labour then deported.

Mahou Shoujo

The writing is on the wall, there is a war coming to western europe, the weapons proving ground is iraq, as soon as enough ordinance is smuggled into western european cities it will seriously start. Surprising it hasn’t already.

genes ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵈᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ

Looks like Daesh found the weapons Saddam hid in Syria.

Kirsty

Really…… I’m amazed……we should never have sent our troops over there, we should have sent in our special forces to exterminate Saddam then the refugees would have had no excuse to come to us or Europe, stopping all the others jumping on the band wagon. We should close our doors NOW!!!!!TERESA MAY

Dr. Doomsday

Mustard gas is easy to make though, but yeah, they probably did.

Pray Hard

I see a military coup coming …

Mark Steiner

Those guys have the means. Question remains is if they have the will.

jsteves

if in fact chemical weapons are being used against our troops…well.that would allow us to take the gloves off….well under a different administration it would…..not so with obummer administration.

Kirsty

The quicker the better to get the murdering Isis out of our
Country

ImajWalker

Obama’s & Hillary’s ISIS attacking US Military with Chemical Weapons = GENOCIDE
At what point do we call this a WAR against WASHINGTON?

Mark Steiner

Mustard Gas from Saddam’s Republican Guards was a major fear back in 2003. It never materialized. Now we have ISIS (ISIL) nt afraid to to what Saddam didn’t.

Obama is out of control, so no countering force from Congress or the courts is expected.

Commieobamie

obama has issued a statement, ” OK, let’s not get carried away, a little Marijuana smoke never hurt anyone.”

Marxist rat obama, a muslim, has made the “rules of engagement” for our troop so restrictive that they must incur fire and bleed before they can shoot back. If they see the enemy moving weapons and staging mortars they can do nothing. President Johnson made the same insane rules when he was running things. He once said “not a shell is fired nor a bomb dropped that I don’t personally authorize”. Luckily when I was in, Nixon was president and he let us shoot them when we saw them.

Drew the Infidel

It is typical of self-righteous and self-important imbeciles like Bill Clinton and Obhammud to think that they are of superior intellect in all things military when they never spent a day in uniform in defense of this country because they felt themselves too worthy.

Peter Joffe

Any action with the enemy that sees Americans killed is fine with Muslim Obama and his sick girlfriend Hillary. What a huge mess. Trump has to fix this mess but he WILL DO IT AND HE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Before Obama, America was Great and now it is a shivering mess of Democrats who would not say boo to a goose. A war cannot be won when you don’t know who the enemy is and while you are hiding under the bed.

Honkingoose.

Remember the bastard’s RED LINE? A line in the sand that none dare cross! It was crossed. It was crossed WITH IMPUNITY, Obama didn’t back up…..and America lost a lot of respect as a result.

Then there was the Iranian navy TAKING US NAVY PERSONNEL PRISONER and holding them hostage for 400 million or whatever it was got flown over there.

Then there was his despicable betrayal of Binyamin Netanyahu, Mobammed is a prick.

Louise Mitchell

It seems they found the chemicals that Saddam hid in Syria now how about that, thought there wasn’t any over there in the sand pit

Palestinian Author: We Can Sacrifice 1-2 Million Arabs a Year to Liberate Palestine

Published on Sep 20, 2016Palestinian Author Yousef Jad Al-Haq

Palestinian
researcher and author Yousef Jad Al-Haq recently rejected the two-state
solution and called to conduct organized resistance in order to
liberate Palestine “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.”
Extrapolating the percentages from the birthrate of the Arab nation, he
said: “If a million of us die, but we get to liberate Palestine…
Well, that’s fine by me.” Al-Haq was speaking on Syria News TV on August
16.

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